My name is Victoria Ushkanova
I am an experienced photographer and visual artist of Chenchen descent living in the Netherlands.
My experience as a photographer is about 20 years.
For weddings and family lifestyle photography visit my website

Shortlisted for British Journal of Photography “Portrait of Humanity Vol.5” 2023
www.1854.photography/2023/02/portrait-of-humanity-vol-5-shortlist-revealed/
Selected by FRESH EYES /GUP Magazine
https://www.fresheyesphoto.com/ushkanova
New Dutch Photography Talent /GUP Magazine
shop.gupmagazine.com/products/new-dutch-photo-talent-2019
Winner of the Nikon Photo Contest Professional Portrait
Category
Photo Vogue
www.vogue.com/photovogue/photographers/145492
Victoria Ushkanova CV
Photographer and media artist, studied art and fashion photography.
Exhibition / Work Experience
2023 Shortlisted for British Journal of Photography “Portrait of Humanity Vol.5”
www.1854.photography/2023/02/portrait-of-humanity-vol-5-shortlist-revealed/
2021 C/O Berlin My work “Debbie"s presented at an exhibition with a great selection of artists
Joseph Beuys, Tacita Dean, Taryn Simon, On Kawara and Claire Strand
co-berlin.org/en/program/exhibitions/send-me-image
2020 Exhibition 'New faces — Documentary photography from Flanders and the Netherlands'
Brussels, Curator Sanne Schim van der Loeff
(World Press Photo)
Fonds Pascal Decroos www.fondspascaldecroos.org/nl/nieuwe-gezichten
2020 Photoshoot for Netflix, Portrait of the main actors, new season Undercover 2
2019 My work Debbie was presented in an exhibition “Blame The Algorithm” as part of
Der Greif issue 12, guest-edited by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin in 2019.
Munich Stadtmuseum (Münchner Stadtmuseum)
www.dergreif-online.de/special/farewell-broomberg-chanarin/#content-slider
2019 Portrait of Gijs Blom, “Prince Viridian” in the film The Letter for the King for Netflix
2019 Portraits of Netflix writers
2019/2020 Group exhibition in Brussels, 12 Sep — 21 Oct. Curator Sanne Schim van der Loeff
(World Press Photo Foundation) and Fonds Pascal Decroos
www.fondspascaldecroos.org/nl/nieuwe-gezichten
English https://www.fondspascaldecroos.org/en/news/exhibition-documentary-photography-flanders-and-netherlands
2019 Selected Fresh Eyes Photo /GUP Magazine, The Book Launched at Photo Basell and
Les Rencontres De La Photographie, d’Arles .
2019 Selected for the “New Dutch Photographer Talent 2019«/GUP Magazine, Melkweg Gallery
2017 “Marina” Winner 1 place Nomination “Professionals Portrait” Nikon
''At the Heart of the Image -2017''
2015 Unseen Photo Fair Festival Amsterdam / participant Video art “Typology” 13 min / Amsterdam
2013 Videodance “Displacement"/ participant EXTRA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL/ 35 mm Moscow
2013 Videodance “Displacement"/ Performance Art Festival/ Open-Air Stage Theatre Moscow
2013 Collaboration/ Koktebel Art Residence /Krym
2013 Collaboration with artist Kseniya Sorokina/ Video/ 5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
2013 Video / River Scene a project by Wiliam Speakman and
Theo Tegelaers (TAAK Amsterdam)/ Nikola-Lenivets 5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
2012/09 Video Art/ William Parke, Patricia Parker/ Residence Nikola-lenivets/ Russia
2012/07 Collaborate with Ksenia Sorokina/ Video/ START Project,
WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow Sept.
2012/07 ARTIST’S BODY/ performance Victoria Ushkanova / MMOMA Moscow/Biennale Young Art/
www.juliafertig.de/? p=421
2012/08 Collaboration with Performers from the school TSEKH-Moscow
2012/05 Laboratory KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOV / PLATFORMA project / Media performance WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow
2012/03 Collaboration, documentation of project Niwa Yoshinori / Double Vision:
Contemporary Art from Japan/ MMOMA Moscow
2011 Video art ‘Fishway’ collaboration with composer Anna Mikhailova/ Media Table May/ MediaArtLab -Moscow
2011 Cinematographer/ Independent film
2011 Unit Still photographer VGIK
2010 Collaborate with Ksenia Sorokina/ Video/ START project
WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow
2007 Unit Still photographer Film Renata Litvinova
Photography workshop
2012 WANDERING FORMS/ Alina Belishkina
2012 Potential acute// Alina Belishkina
2011 PHOTOGRAPHY. OBJECTIFICATION OF THE VOID/Alina Belishkina
2011 The Nordic Photography: Experience Self-portrait LINA SCHEYNIUS
2010 International Summer Photo workshop/ WANESSA WINSHIP, UK, Agence VU Storytelling: Portrait Within the Environment
2008 International Summer Photo workshop PAVEL SAMOKHVALOV
2009/2010 Workshop Art Director/ VGIK/ Russian State University of Cinematography
Art workshops
2013 Art Project by Theo Tegelaers/TAAK.ME and William Speakman. A three-day journey on the Ugra River in Russia. www.youtube.com/watch? v=NE5FNccafO0
2013 Koktebel Art Residence
2012/08 Collaboration with Performers from the school TSEKH-Moscow/Video
2012/09 Art Residence Nikola-lenivets/ William Parke/ Patricia Parker /Video
2012 ImPulsTanz 2012/Benoît LACHAMBRE/ Angélique WILLKIE/Linda RABIN /Workshops
2011–2012 MMOMA/ Media Performance Laboratory
2011–2012 MMOMA/School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”
2011-2011 WACADEMY/ OLGA Shishko Media Art
2010–2011 Moscow Museum Of Modern Art School /MMOMA of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”
2000-2004 MGUS Institute for Applied Design, Art and Fashion photography
1997-2000 MGUS Institute for Applied Design, costume design (ba)
Work experience
2020
— Marinella Senatore Italian artist /Video and photography marinella-senatore.com/
— Sakura pathology equipment
— Portrait of Mayaki Kimba, political science, The Black Archives. For Reed Magazine, Portland, OR
— Photoshoot for Netflix / main actors Undercover 2 Anna Drijver, Frank Lammers, Else Schaap, Sanne Samina Hanssen.
2019
— Editorial photoshoot for Netflix/ portrait of Gijs Blom “The Letter for the King”
— NDSM Portrait of Tim, a new director
— PTSA Architectural bureau, portrait & interior photoshoot
— Portraits European writers of Netflix
— Flirt Creativity branding photoshoot
2018
— 11 Rue Simon Crubellier, Matthew Darbyshire/Gemeente Amsterdam
— Cathalijne Smulders | project Parfum Varken at Museum Bommel van Dam
2013 Rijksmuseum celebrates opening on 13 April 2013 http:// www.taak.me/ Photo & Video
2008-2013 Photographer, Burda Publishing House Moscow, editorial, covers, fashion story ’’GIRL’’